Missionary  Meetings 


J.  LOVELL  MURRAY 


Student  Volunteer  Movement 


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The  Missionary  Meetings 
of  the  Student  Christian 
Association 


BY 

J.  Lovell  M  URRAY,  M.  A. 

Educational  Secretary 
Student  Volunteer  Movement 


New  York 

Student  Volunteer  Movement 

1911 


Copyright,  1911,  by 
Student  Volunteer  Movemen 
for  Foreign  Missions 


Introductory  Note 


HP  HE  suggestions  offered  in  this  pam- 
A  phlet  are  the  outcome  of  an  inves¬ 
tigation  recently  made  into  the  problem 
of  the  missionary  meeting  in  colleges 
and  universities.  Many  valuable  hints 
were  contributed  by  the  leaders  of  the 
religious  work  among  the  students  of 
North  America.  The  average  college 
has  been  kept  in  mind.  Modifications 
of  these  suggestions  would  require  to  be 
made  for  preparatory  schools,  profes¬ 
sional  schools  and  theological  seminaries. 

Attention  is  directed  to  an  article, 
“Educational  Missionary  Meetings,”  by 
Dr.  T.  El.  P.  Sailer  in  The  Missionary 
Review  of  the  World ,  December,  1909, 
and  to  the  pamphlet,  “Religious  Meet¬ 
ings  for  Students,”  by  A.  J.  Elliott. 

In  the  files  of  The  Inter  collegian, 
1898-1908,  some  very  suggestive  out¬ 
lines  will  be  found  in  the  series  of  ar¬ 
ticles  entitled  “The  Monthly  Missionary 
Meeting.” 


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The  Missionary  Meetings  of  the 
Student  Christian  Association 


T  N  not  a  few  colleges  the  missionary 
A  meeting  ranks  among  the  important 
occasions  of  the  month.  It  is  the  most 
successful  among  the  religious  meetings 
that  are  held.  It  helps  the  popularity  and 
influence  of  the  Christian  Association. 
And  there  is  every  reason  why  it  should 
do  so.  Rightly  planned  and  conducted, 
it  has  an  appeal  for  every  wholesome 
type  of  student.  For  the  missionary 
theme  is  thoroughly  practical,  thoroughly 
modern,  and  abounds  in  action  and 
human  interest.  It  satisfies  alike  the 
matter-of-fact  person  and  the  idealist,  it 
sweeps  the  whole  horizon  of  the  new 
world-consciousness,  it  touches  the  most 
vital  issues  of  society  and  comprehends 
the  most  exalted  forms  of  human  en¬ 
deavor.  Little  wonder  that,  well  under¬ 
stood  and  utilized,  the  meetings  devoted 
to  this  theme  are  of  absorbing  interest 
and  exceptional  value. 

In  some  other  colleges  the  missionary 
meeting  proves  a  dead  failure.  It  can¬ 
not  carry  its  own  weight  and  is  a  drag 
on  the  Association  that  doggedly  and 
wearily  maintains  it  as  a  necessary  fea¬ 
ture. 


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Where  there  is  difficulty  it  usually  lies 
with  those  responsible  for  the  missionary 
meeting.  They  may  lack  in  convictions 
regarding  the  missionary  enterprise  and, 
regarding  the  missionary  enterprise  and, 
sibilities  of  a  meeting  devoted  to  the 
consideration  of  it.  They  may  lack  in 
definiteness  of  aim  in  regard  to  the 
meetings.  In  their  preparation  for  the 
meeting  they  may  fail  at  the  point 
of  judgment,  initiative,  organization  or 
energy.  And  defeat  may  oftenest  be 
traced  to  the  absence  of  definite,  de¬ 
termined  prayer  for  real  and  permanent 
results. 

THE  COMMITTEE’S  RESPONSI¬ 
BILITY 

A  newly  appointed  committee  should 
be  convinced  beyond  any  question  of  the 
downright  importance  and  vast  possi¬ 
bilities  of  these  meetings.  For  any  stu¬ 
dent  who  is  chosen  because  of  his  fitness 
for  the  missionary  committee  and  is  will¬ 
ing  to  think  into  the  subject,  this  convic¬ 
tion  not  only  may  be  cultivated,  but  is 
inevitable. 

The  committee  should  lose  no  time  in 
making  a  careful  study  of  the  situation 
with  which  it  is  to  deal.  It  should  study 
the  past  successes  and  failures  of  mis¬ 
sionary  meetings  held  in  the  college.  It 


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MISSIONARY  MEETINGS 

should  study  the  methods  which  are  suc¬ 
cessfully  pursued  in  other  colleges.  It 
should  study  the  local  student  field,  to 
determine  the  background  of  missionary 
intelligence,  the  general  attitude  to  mis¬ 
sions  and  any  special  interests  that  may 
lie  in  certain  mission  fields  or  in  certain 
aspects  of  the  missionary  enterprise. 

While  the  whole  student  body  should 
be  included  in  this  careful  survey,  at¬ 
tention  should  be  concentrated  on  the 
students  of  special  ability  and  influence. 
They  should  be  considered  with  a  view 
not  only  to  their  being  reached  by  the 
missionary  interest  but  also  to  their  be¬ 
ing  enlisted  for  participation  in  the  meet¬ 
ings. 

The  committee  should  know  what  it 
proposes  to  accomplish  through  the  mis¬ 
sionary  meetings  of  the  year.  A  num¬ 
ber  of  important  aims  may  be  served 
through  this  means  which  could  not  be 
so  well  realized  in  any  other  way. 

(1)  A  new  interest  is  given  to  the 
religious  meetings  of  the  Association  by 
reason  of  the  whole  range  of  absorbing 
themes  which  the  missionary  meetings 
contribute. 

(2)  The  cultural  value  of  these  meet¬ 
ings  is  of  the  greatest  importance.  They 
should  serve  as  a  corrective  of  paro¬ 
chialism — as  regards  intelligence,  inter- 


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est,  prayer  and  service ;  and  in  the  wide 
sweep  of  the  information  they  bring 
they  should  be  a  real  educational  force 
in  the  college. 

(3)  They  form  a  valuable  part  of 
the  Association’s  general  programme  of 
promoting  missionary  intelligence  and 
thus  help  to  lay  foundations  and  furnish 
equipment  for  missionary  activity  at 
home  and  abroad. 

(4)  They  have  a  distinct  spiritual 
value.  We  do  not  consider  the  living 
work  of  the  living  Christ  bringing  men 
and  nations  into  subjection  to  Himself, 
we  do  not  receive  fresh  convictions  re¬ 
garding  the  greatness  and  universality  of 
our  faith,  we  do  not  have  our  devotion 
challenged  to  gifts  and  acts  of  heroic 
loyalty  to  Christ,  we  do  not  study  the 
experiences  and  achievements  of  valiant 
men  and  women  who,  with  the  Son  of 
God,  go  forth  to  war  in  remote  and 
difficult  fields,  we  do  not  have  our  sym¬ 
pathies  enlarged  and  our  intercession 
quickened,  without  gaining  a  new  spirit¬ 
ual  uplift  and  a  new  anchorage  for  our 
faith. 

(5)  Moreover,  they  unite  with  the 
other  meetings  of  the  Association  in  rep¬ 
resenting  the  religion  of  Jesus  Christ  in 
its  true  richness  and  completeness.  The 
other  religious  meetings  emphasize  the 


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resources  of  Christ  for  the  individual. 
They  stand  for  the  intake  of  the  reli¬ 
gious  life.  These  meetings  represent  its 
outflow.  They  reveal  the  Christian  reli¬ 
gion  in  its  great  applicability  and  out¬ 
reach.  They  set  forth  the  idea  of  Chris¬ 
tian  social  service  pushed  to  its  logical 
and  world-wide  conclusion. 

It  may  be  questioned  why  the  Mis¬ 
sion  Study  classes  do  not  suffice  to  ac¬ 
complish  these  purposes.  In  answer  it 
is  to  be  said  that  the  missionary  meeting 
reaches  often  a  larger  constituency  than 
the  mission  study  groups,  that  it  fre¬ 
quently  captures  the  initial  interest  of 
students  for  the  missionary  enterprise 
and  so  lays  foundations  for  its  subse¬ 
quent  study,  that  it  gives  to  the  mem¬ 
bers  of  each  group  a  larger  and  truer 
conception  of  the  enterprise  by  present¬ 
ing  it  in  new  aspects  and  bearings,  that 
it  provides  for  more  variety,  more  at¬ 
tractive  features  and  a  wider  range  of 
topics,  including  some  of  immediate  in¬ 
terest,  that  it  unifies  and  co-ordinates  the 
work  of  the  classes  and  that  it  forms  a 
rallying  center  for  the  missionary  inter¬ 
ests  and  activities  of  the  college. 

But  not  only  should  there  be  in  the 
minds  of  the  committee  a  clear  concep¬ 
tion  of  the  function  and  purpose  of  these 
meetings ;  there  should  be  a  distinct  aim 


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also  for  each  meeting  of  the  series.  “If 
I  miss,  I  pitch  on  this,”  is  apparently  the 
method  of  some  committees.  With  pa¬ 
thetic  loyalty  to  an  appropriate  and  gen¬ 
erally  accepted  policy  they  hold  on  grimly 
to  the  idea  of  a  missionary  meeting 
each  month,  but  lacking  a  definite  objec¬ 
tive  they  utterly  fail  to  realize  the  large 
and  ultimate  purpose  of  the  meetings. 
A  committee  should  not  hold  a  mission¬ 
ary  meeting  merely  for  the  sake  of  hold¬ 
ing  one.  There  is  no  duty  of  the  kind. 
The  religious  meetings  of  the  college  are 
too  valuable  to  admit  of  even  one  being 
expended  aimlessly. 

Then,  having  the  aim  for  each  meet¬ 
ing  in  mind,  a  consistent  effort  should  be 
made  to  attain  it.  The  “miscellaneous 
programme”  idea  should  be  shunned.  A 
great  opportunity  each  month  may  be 
frittered  away  and  each  meeting  fail  as 
an  educational  force  and  a  missionary 
agency  because  of  a  haphazard  pro¬ 
gramme  and  the  introduction  of  extra¬ 
neous  features.  The  focus  should  be 
drawn  on  one  or  two  big,  vital  issues  and 
what  does  not  make  a  distinct  contribu¬ 
tion  to  the  purpose  of  the  meeting  should 
be  mercilessly  excluded.  Being  unani¬ 
mously  clear  as  to  the  precise  object  in 
view,  the  committee  will  be  able  to  pray 
more  definitely  for  its  realization. 


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TIME  OF  MEETING 

It  is  usually  found  that  once  a  month 
is  often  enough  to  hold  such  meetings. 
In  some  institutions,  however,  they  are 
held  oftener,  and  at  one  large  State  Uni¬ 
versity  the  Christian  Association  con¬ 
ducts  a  successful  missionary  meeting 
weekly  with  an  average  attendance  of 
about  two  hundred.  Usually  it  is  not 
advisable  to  have  the  meeting  occur  on 
the  same  week  of  each  month  (e.  g.,  the 
first  Wednesday  or  the  last  Friday). 
Even  the  dates  agreed  upon  at  the  be¬ 
ginning  of  the  year  should  be  subject  to 
modification.  The  meeting  should  not 
be  announced  as  the  “Monthly  Mission¬ 
ary  Meeting.”  Indeed,  it  need  not  be 
announced  as  a  “missionary  meeting”  at 
all.  By  some  other  title  it  may  be  pos¬ 
sible  to  steer  past  the  prejudices  of 
some  students.  In  some  colleges  the 
word  must  be  invested  with  a  new  and 
true  meaning  or  else  must  have  a  sub¬ 
stitute  ;  otherwise  the  announcement  of 
the  meeting  will  generally  be  received  as 
a  signal  to  stay  away. 

Ordinarily  the  missionary  meeting 
should  occur  in  the  regular  series  of 
weekly  Association  meetings.  Mission¬ 
ary  interest  is  not  for  the  exceptional 
Christian,  nor  is  it  a  separate  and  dis- 


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tinct  thing  in  any  Christian.  Every 
means  should  be  used  to  articulate  the 
missionary  element  into  the  whole  Chris¬ 
tian  interest  and  life  of  the  college.  The 
missionary  features  of  religious  meet¬ 
ings  should  not  be  confined  to  this  one 
stated  missionary  meeting,  nor  should 
the  missionary  meetings  be  separated 
into  an  exclusive  department  of  the  As¬ 
sociation’s  activity. 

PREPARATION  FOR  THE 
MEETING 

Hurried,  listless  or  slipshod  prepara¬ 
tion  for  the  meeting  accounts  for  a  great 
many  failures.  Preparation  should  be 
begun  for  each  meeting  at  least  a  month 
in  advance.  All  that  has  been  said  in 
regard  to  having  a  definite  aim  for  the 
meeting  and  adhering  to  it  rigidly  may 
be  emphasized  here.  The  responsibility 
for  each  phase  of  the  meeting  should  be 
definitely  located.  Where  outside  speak¬ 
ers  are  to  be  used,  they  may  be  respect¬ 
fully  coached  as  to  the  aim  of  the  meet¬ 
ing  and  suggestions  may  be  offered  as 
to  the  special  type  of  material  that  will 
appeal  most  strongly  to  the  student 
body.  Returned  missionaries,  for  ex¬ 
ample,  sometimes  dilate  on  matters 
which  are  of  special  interest  to  them  bur 


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which  do  not  markedly  touch  the  imagi¬ 
nation  and  interest  of  the  average  stu¬ 
dent.  Where  a  number  of  students  are 
to  take  part  in  the  programme,  it  is  well 
to  have  a  conference  of  these  two  or 
three  days  before  the  meeting. 

In  all  the  preparations  two  things  of 
special  importance  should  be  kept  in 
view.  One  is  the  dignified  nature  of  the 
meeting  which  calls  for  dignified  treat¬ 
ment.  This  applies  to  the  advertising  of 
the  meeting,  the  programme,  the  subse¬ 
quent  report  in  the  college  paper,  and  in 
general  to  all  the  arrangements.  The 
other  is  the  endeavor  to  enlist  or  deepen 
the  interest  of  the  most  able  and  influ¬ 
ential  student.  He  should  be  kept  in 
mind  steadily  as  the  type  to  which  it  is 
sought  to  appeal. 

It  is  not  possible  to  err  on  the  side  of 
giving  too  great  attention  to  detail.  The 
order  of  the  programme,  the  place  of 
meeting,  the  seating  arrangements,  the 
hanging  of  maps,  charts  and  mottoes,  the 
Scripture  reading,  announcements,  ush¬ 
ering,  etc.,  are  items  to  receive  careful 
attention.  Special  thought  should  be 
given  to  the  music.  One  chairman  re¬ 
cently  called  on  the  audience  to  join 
heartily  in  the  singing  of  “O  Mother 
Dear,  Jerusalem.”  Hymns  should  be 
appropriate,  well-known  and  usually 


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rousing.  Dirges  and  dead  marches 
should  be  eschewed.  Many  hymns,  such 
as  “In  the  Cross  of  Christ  I  glory,”  or 
“We  may  not  climb  the  heavenly 
steeps,”  though  not  labeled  missionary 
have  a  missionary  bearing  and  are  quite 
in  place.  Solos  and  other  special  music 
are  usually  more  suitable  in  the  early 
part  of  the  meeting.  These,  too,  should 
be  quite  appropriate.  Always  the  aim 
of  the  meeting  should  be  kept  in  mind. 
Ample  provision  should  be  made  for 
prayer,  especially  at  the  close  of  the 
meeting.  This  should  never  be  a  per¬ 
functory  feature.  Usually  those  who  are 
to  lead  in  prayer  should  be  notified  in 
advance.  Silent  prayer,  just  before  the 
meeting  closes,  is  sometimes  very  fitting 
and  effective. 

Unless  in  the  rarest  cases,  a  collection 
should  not  be  taken  at  the  meeting. 
Students  must  not  be  given  the  impres¬ 
sion  that  a  trap  has  been  laid  for  them. 
From  the  financial  standpoint  the  meet¬ 
ing  is  an  educational  not  a  collecting 
agency. 

One  of  the  most  essential  parts  of 
the  preparation  is  the  advertising.  The 
announcement  of  the  meeting  should  be 
attractive,  dignified,  varied,  striking  and 
ubiquitous.  It  should  indicate  the  pro¬ 
nounced  belief  of  the  Association  lead- 


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ers  in  the  importance  of  the  occasion. 
It  should  be  honest,  too,  and  not  prom¬ 
ise  more  than  will  surely  be  given. 

There  is  a  multitude  of  ways  in  which 
the  meeting  may  be  advertised.  In  gen¬ 
eral  the  methods  may  be  used  which  are 
followed  in  announcing  other  big  col¬ 
lege  events.  Some  methods  that  have 
been  found  successful  are  posters,  bulle¬ 
tin  boards,  blackboards  in  recitation 
rooms,  post  cards  mentioning  some 
special  feature  and  sent  to  a  selected 
list  of  students,  announcements  in 
chapel  and  by  professors  to  their 
classes,  printed  slips,  the  handbook,  the 
college  paper.  Some  colleges  print  a 
prospectus  of  the  missionary  meetings 
for  the  year.  The  mission  study  classes 
furnish  an  exceptionally  valuable  ad¬ 
vertising  agency.  But  by  far  the  most 
effective  method  is  the  methodical,  per¬ 
suasive,  timely  invitation  of  individual 
students  by  the  committee  and  other  in¬ 
terested  workers. 

FOLLOWING  UP  THE  MEETING 

The  missionary  meeting  is  not  an  end 
in  itself ;  but  it  is  a  means  to  most  im¬ 
portant  ends.  The  committee  should 
never  fail  to  consider  carefully  how  the 
interest  may  be  conserved  and  trans- 


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lated  into  definite  forms  of  activity. 
How  may  the  meeting  be  made  a  feeder 
for  the  mission  study  classes?  How 
may  it  serve  the  missionary  giving  enter¬ 
prise  of  the  college  ?  How  may  it  pro¬ 
mote  the  general  reading  of  missionary 
literature?  How  may  it  serve  to  impress 
the  responsibility  of  the  college  graduate 
(and  also  the  undergraduate  during  va¬ 
cations)  for  the  missionary  life  of  the 
home  churches?  How  may  it  lead  to 
various  forms  of  social  service  in  the 
college  community?  How  may  it  bring 
about  new  effort  for  the  Oriental  stu¬ 
dents  attending  the  college,  if  there  are 
such?  And,  supremely,  how  may  it  be 
made  a  force  to  recruit  lives  for  service 
on  the  foreign  field  ? 

In  following  up  the  meetings,  a  well- 
written  report  in  the  college  paper  is  a 
most  valuable  method.  At  times  some 
striking  facts  of  present-day  conditions 
on  the  mission  fields  may  preface  this 
report.  The  bulletin  board  may  be  used 
to  announce  books,  pamphlets  or  maga¬ 
zine  articles  bearing  on  the  subject  of 
the  meeting.  At  the  appropriate  time 
canvasses  for  Mission  Study  enrollment 
or  for  missionary  subscriptions  or  for 
additions  to  the  library  may  be  made. 
It  is  often  advisable  to  invite  a  visiting 
speaker  to  prolong  his  stay  in  the  col- 


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lege  for  a  day  or  two  after  the  meeting 
in  order  that  students  may  have  oppor¬ 
tunity  to  consult  him  individually  or  in 
groups.  And  invariably  the  faithful, 
believing  prayer  of  the  committee  will 
serve  to  increase  and  make  permanent 
the  fruit  of  the  meeting. 

SPEAKERS  AND  LEADERS 

At  a  number  of  the  missionary  meet¬ 
ings  outside  speakers  should  be  heard. 
These  speakers  should  be  chosen  with 
discrimination  and  should  be  invited  well 
in  advance.  Among  them  there  should 
be  each  year  at  least  one  Christian 
worker  who  has  seen  service  on  the  for¬ 
eign  field.  Only  those  missionaries 
should  be  invited  to  speak,  however,  who 
will  appeal  to  students  and  will  worthily 
represent  the  missionary  calling  and 
personnel  of  the  present  day. 

The  mistake  is  sometimes  made  of  in¬ 
viting  to  speak  at  these  meetings  none 
but  missionaries  and  secretaries  of  mis¬ 
sionary  organizations,  all  of  whom  stu¬ 
dents  regard  as  in  the  nature  of  pro¬ 
fessionals.  Prominent  laymen  and  min¬ 
isters  with  missionary  enthusiasm,  sec¬ 
retaries  of  the  Student  Christian  Asso¬ 
ciation  and  professors  who  are  especially 
qualified  will  furnish  speakers  for  other 
occasions. 


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As  a  rule,  at  least  half  of  the  mis¬ 
sionary  meetings  should  be  led  by  stu¬ 
dents.  Those  who  participate  should  be 
able,  well-informed,  prominent  students 
with  good  speaking  ability  and  real  mis¬ 
sionary  convictions.  It  is  by  no  means 
necessary  that  they  be  student  volun¬ 
teers.  Indeed,  that  matter  need  not  be 
considered  at  all,  unless  to  provide  that 
all  of  those  participating  be  not  student 
volunteers.  The  well-known  principle  that 
“expression  brings  impression”  should 
demand  opportunity  for  a  number  of  stu¬ 
dents  to  take  part  at  each  meeting. 
Great  care  must  be  taken  in  the  selection 
of  these  students,  as  the  whole  cause  will 
be  identified  in  the  minds  of  many  with 
the  type  of  student  who  gives  time  and 
advocacy  to  it.  Occasionally  one  or 
more  of  the  foreign  students  attending 
the  college  may  be  utilized.  The  presid¬ 
ing  officer  should  never  be  chosen  on 
grounds  of  courtesy  or  relationships,  but 
should  be  someone  of  prominence  and 
downright  sympathy  with  missions. 

SPECIAL  FEATURES 

There  is  absolutely  no  excuse  for  dull 
or  stereotyped  missionary  programmes. 
The  subject  of  missions  lends  itself  to  a 
wide  variety  of  treatments  and  admits 


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of  the  introduction  of  most  interesting 
items.  The  alertness  and  ingenuity  of 
the  committee  will  find  ample  play  in 
making  provision  for  these  special  fea¬ 
tures.  Here  again,  however,  the  aim 
of  the  meeting  must  be  kept  steadily  in 
mind.  Impressions  must  not  be  scat¬ 
tered  ;  incidentals  should  not  displace 
essentials  and  the  meeting  should  be 
kept  a  unit. 

Maps*  To  be  useful,  maps  must  be  of 
ample  size  and  prominently  hung.  A 
large  missionary  map  of  the  world 
should  have  a  prominent  and  permanent 
place  on  the  walls  of  the  room  where 
the  religious  meetings  are  held.  Fre¬ 
quently  these  maps  are  marked  to  indi-  - 
cate  the  present  location  of  graduates  of 
the  college  who  are  on  the  foreign  field. 
Maps  of  individual  countries  or  special 
maps,  e.g.,  to  show  the  prevailing  reli¬ 
gions  of  the  world  or  the  unoccupied 
mission  fields,  should  be  provided  for 
meetings  where  they  will  render  a  real 
service,  even  if  they  have  to  be  made  for 
the  occasion. 

Mottoes  and  Charts.  The  necessary 
cautions  in  regard  to  these  are  that  they 
be  striking,  appropriate,  dignified  and 
attractively  made. 

*  A  list  of  suitable  maps  will  be  found  in  the  List 
of  Publications  of  the  Student  Volunteer  Movement. 


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Curios.  This  feature  may  easily  be 
overdone.  A  curio  should  never  be  ex¬ 
hibited  simply  because  it  is  a  curio.  The 
audience  is  not  composed  of  children 
and  the  object  in  view  is  not  amusement. 
A  large  miscellany  of  queer  things  can 
serve  only  to  distract,  while  one  or  two 
well-selected  curios  often  give  illustra¬ 
tion  and  atmosphere  and  emphasis. 

Pictorial  Material.  The  use  of  the 
stereopticon  or  radiopticon  is  very  effec¬ 
tive.  Other  forms  of  illustration  are 
available.  The  Central  Committee  of 
the  United  Study  of  Missions  and  some 
of  the  denominational  Mission  Boards 
have  prepared  sets  of  pictures  on  dif¬ 
ferent  fields.  The  Missionary  Educa¬ 
tion  Movement  has  a  large  supply 
of  illustrative  material  ranging  from  post 
cards  to  moving  picture  films.  Only  a 
few  pictures  should  be  shown  at  any 
meeting  and  these  should  bear  directly 
on  the  subject  in  hand.  Used  with  dis¬ 
crimination  this  feature  is  deserving  of 
much  wider  attention  than  it  now 
receives. 

Impersonations.  There  are  limitless 
possibilities  in  this  feature,  although  it 
is  so  entertaining  that  it  is  liable  to  be 
carried  to  an  extreme.  It  is  far  from  an 
easy  matter  to  impersonate  successfully, 


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a  ready  wit,  a  live  imagination  and  ac¬ 
curate  knowledge  all  being  required.  A 
foreign  Association  secretary  during  of¬ 
fice  hours,  an  educational  missionary 
receiving  visits  from  his  students,  an 
evangelistic  missionary  returning  from  a 
tour,  a  high-caste  Hindu  woman,  a  Mo¬ 
hammedan  girl,  a  Chinese  scholar,  a 
critic  denouncing  missions,  a  globe-trot¬ 
ter  being  interviewed,  a  Board  secretary 
dealing  with  missionary  candidates  are 
a  few  of  the  possibilities  in  this  direc¬ 
tion.  Costumes  will  sometimes  help  more 
than  distract.  Only  they  must  be  true 
and  accurate.  There  is  no  such  thing, 
for  example,  as  an  “Oriental  costume.” 
It  will  not  do  to  impersonate  a  Buddhist 
priest  in  the  garb  of  a  Mohammedan 
sheikh.  Truthful  costumes,  however, 
help  to  visualize  the  life  that  is  under 
description.  The  impersonations  may  be 
given  as  monologues  or  dialogues,  or  even 
as  missionary  dramas  occupying  an  entire 
programme. 

Account  of  Current  Events.  Some 
missionary  committees  provide  for  this 
feature  at  every  missionary  meeting  and 
a  few  at  every  religious  meeting  of  the 
Association.  Recent  missionary  develop¬ 
ments  or  outstanding  occurrences  in 
mission  fields  are  described  tersely  by 
some  student  who  has  been  alert  for 


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news  since  the  last  account  was  given. 
Usually  the  same  student  is  detailed 
to  make  these  announcements  through¬ 
out  the  year.  As  this  duty  calls  for  in¬ 
telligence,  discrimination,  an  interesting 
manner,  a  faculty  for  vivid  presentation 
and  a  power  of  concise  utterance,  great 
care  should  be  exercised  in  the  selection 
of  the  student  to  whom  this  duty  is  as¬ 
signed.  Sometimes  five  students  are 
assigned  to  as  many  different  mission 
lands  and  are  allowed  three  minutes 
each  at  every  missionary  meeting  to 
mention  the  most  significant  events  of 
the  past  month  in  their  respective 
countries.  Done  in  this  way  there  is 
danger,  of  course,  of  its  becoming  me¬ 
chanical,  perfunctory  and  monotonous. 
But  five  minutes  of  each  missionary 
meeting  allowed  to  some  capable  student 
for  a  recital  of  fresh,  striking,  significant 
facts  from  the  mission  fields  would  be 
well  expended. 

Debates.  If  well  handled  this  fea¬ 
ture  is  capable  of  very  effective  use.  It 
is  important  that  those  participating  be 
among  the  best  debaters  in  college.  It  is 
also  important  that  the  subject  be  a  de¬ 
batable  one  and  of  a  sort  that  will  cap¬ 
ture  the  interest  of  students. 

Book  Reviews.  At  some  missionary 
meetings,  if  not  at  all  of  them,  one  or 


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two  recent  attractive  volumes  should  be 
reviewed.  These  books  should  be  chosen 
with  discrimination  and  the  reviewing 
should  be  done  by  students  whose  opin¬ 
ions  carry  weight.  Often  some  of  the 
ablest  contributors  to  the  college  paper 
would  perform  this  service  admirably. 
As  an  alternate  plan,  one  whole  meet¬ 
ing  in  the  college  year  could  be  devoted 
advantageously  to  the  description  of 
from  three  to  six  books.  The  objects 
being  to  bring  the  essential  messages  of 
these  recent  volumes  to  the  meeting  and 
incidentally  to  advertise  and  popularize 
the  available  missionary  literature  in  the 
college,  the  reviewers  should  be  duly  in¬ 
structed  in  advance  as  to  what  is 
required  of  them.  The  book  should  be 
in  the  hands  of  the  reviewer  as  he  speaks. 
Brief  extracts  may  be  read  occasionally. 
Each  speaker  must  be  held  strictly  to 
time  and  should  rehearse  his  address 
beforehand.  The  great  wealth  of  excel¬ 
lent  pamphlet  literature  on  missions 
should  not  be  overlooked  in  this  feature 
of  the  meeting.  References  to  articles 
on  missions  or  mission  countries  in  cur¬ 
rent  magazines  should  also  be  made.  It 
is  assumed  that  whatever  missionary 
literature  is  described  in  the  meeting  will 
be  available  to  any  students  who  later 
desire  to  read  it. 


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MISSIONARY  MEETINGS 


At  “book  review  meetings,”  the  interest 
is  increased  if  the  volumes  reviewed  and 
the  magazines  referred  to  are  in  the 
meeting  room  where  they  can  be  looked 
over  at  the  close  of  the  meeting. 

Testimonies  by  Student  Volunteers. 
Occasionally,  not  oftener  than  once  a 
year,  testimonies  may  be  given  by  a  few 
of  the  student  volunteers  as  to  their  rea¬ 
sons  for  becoming  foreign  missionaries. 
The  volunteers  chosen  to  speak  should 
be  students  who  stand  well  in  the  estima¬ 
tion  of  their  fellow  students. 

Question  Drawer.  When  a  prominent 
missionary  or  other  specialist  is  the 
speaker  at  the  meeting,  time  may  well 
be  reserved  towards  the  close  for  ques¬ 
tions  and  answers.  If  this  does  not 
seem  wise,  an  opportunity  should  be 
afforded  after  the  meeting  for  groups  or 
individuals  to  have  their  questions 
answered. 

Prayer.  Prayer  is  of  course  a  regular 
feature  of  all  missionary  meetings,  but 
at  most  of  these  meetings  it  should  be  a 
special  feature,  too.  Before  the  assigned 
topic  of  the  meeting  is  taken  up,  a  period 
may  be  devoted  to  prayer  for  graduates 
of  the  college  now  on  the  field,  foreign 
secretaries  of  the  Association  movement, 
or  some  special  crisis  or  emergency  men¬ 
tioned  either  by  the  student  presenting 


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MISSIONARY  MEETINGS 

current  events  or  by  the  chairman  of  the 
meeting.  Often  at  the  close  of  the  meet¬ 
ing  five  minutes  or  more  may  profitably 
be  reserved  for  prayers  for  the  country 
or  problem  that  has  been  under  dis¬ 
cussion. 

Mission  Study  Groups  in  Charge.  In 
the  various  Mission  Study  classes  a  great 
aggregate  of  intelligent  interest  and  en¬ 
thusiasm  is  being  banked  up.  One  out¬ 
let  for  this  might  very  well  be  an  oc¬ 
casional  missionary  meeting.  Let  the 
programme  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  one 
of  the  classes  whose  aim  it  will  be  to 
spread  the  contagion  of  its  new  interest. 

Social  Gatherings.  An  interesting  va¬ 
riety  may  be  interjected  by  a  social  gath¬ 
ering.  A  meeting  of  this  nature  should 
not  occur  oftener  than  once  or  twice  in 
the  year.  Its  main  value  lies  in  its  in¬ 
formality,  its  increasing  of  the  points  of 
contact  of  the  missionary  interests  with 
the  whole  life  of  the  college  and  its  pop¬ 
ularizing  of  the  missionary  meeting  as  a 
college  institution.  For  such  occasions  a 
missionary  exhibit  might  be  arranged  in 
which  attractive  literature  would  be  dis¬ 
played,  the  local  Mission  Study  work 
advertised  and  the  missionary  activities 
of  other  colleges  depicted  by  charts  and 
printed  matter.  Curios  and  pictorial  ma¬ 
terial,  such  as  stereoscopic  views  and 


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picture  post  cards,  would  be  quite  in  or¬ 
der  here.  Even  in  a  meeting  of  this  sort 
it  is  usually  advisable  to  adhere  con¬ 
sistently  to  one  missionary  country  or 
theme.  For  example,  if  the  country 
chosen  is  Japan — possibly  at  a  social 
introducing  a  course  of  study  on  that 
country,  or  given  by  a  class  studying 
Japan — Japanese  tea  might  be  served  by 
waiters  in  Japanese  costume,  Japanese 
flags  and  Japanese  lanterns  might  serve 
as  decorations,  a  map  of  Japan  might 
be  displayed,  books  and  magazine  articles 
on  Japan  might  be  exhibited,  etc. 

THEMES 

i.  Outline  for  a  Year 

The  subjects  of  the  missionary  meet¬ 
ings  should  be  outlined  for  a  year  in  ad¬ 
vance,  the  programme  being  subject  to 
modification,  however,  both  as  regards 
topics  and  speakers.  One  meeting  will 
of  course  be  set  apart  to  introduce  the 
mission  study  work — possibly  one  for 
each  semester — and  another  to  launch 
the  canvass  for  missionary  subscriptions. 
The  other  meetings  will  be  devoted  to 
reports  of  missionary  gatherings  (such 
as  the  Student  Volunteer  Movement 
Convention,  the  World  Student  Christian 
Federation  Conference  and  any  district 


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missionary  conference  attended  by  repre¬ 
sentatives  of  the  college),  character  stud¬ 
ies  of  great  missionaries,  modern  mis¬ 
sionary  movements  (e.g.,  the  Mission¬ 
ary  Education  Movement,  Laymen’s  Mis¬ 
sionary  Movement,  Student  V olunteer 
Movement),  mission  countries,  non- 
Christian  religions  and  special  themes. 

2.  Titles 

The  titles  by  which  the  themes  are  an¬ 
nounced  should  be  striking.  They  should 
be  phrased  with  the  type  of  student  in 
mind  whom  it  is  sought  to  interest. 
“William  Carey,  the  Founder  of  Modern 
English  Missions,”  has  no  arresting  qual¬ 
ity  whatever.  A  better  name  would  be 
“A  Pioneer  in  a  Modern  World-Move¬ 
ment.”  Divinity  students  might  be  struck 
bv  the  words  “How  Channels  of  Church 
History  were  Changed,”  while  prepara¬ 
tory  school  students  might  surrender  to 
the  title  “A  Cobbler  Who  Won  Interna¬ 
tional  Fame.”  Often  notice  is  compelled 
by  a  contrasting  title  such  as  “Japanese 
and  American  Slums,”  “Chinese  and 
American  Brides,”  “Medical  Opportuni¬ 
ties  in  Canton,  Ohio,  and  Canton, 
China.” 

Titles  should  be  honest.  The  wording 
of  the  subject  may  disguise  its  real  mean¬ 
ing  with  perfect  fairness ;  but  even  the 


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title  must  be  vindicated  by  the  treatment 
of  the  subject.  No  student  must  be  given 
ground  for  feeling  after  the  meeting  that 
he  has  been  cheated.  “Social  Recon¬ 
struction  in  India”  would  be  an  honest 
title  for  an  address  showing  the  way  in 
which  Christianity  is  undermining  the 
caste  system  by  changing  the  social  ideas 
of  Hinduism  and  proving  that  only  Christ 
can  redeem  the  society  of  India.  But  it 
would  be  a  dishonest  title  for  a  homily 
on  the  missionary  obligation  in  general 
or  even  for  an  account  of  the  recent  re¬ 
vival  in  India. 

y.  Nature  of  Topics 

(1)  They  should  be  of  proper  di¬ 
mensions.  On  the  one  hand  they  should 
be  compassable.  “India,”  “Missions  to 
China,”  “The  Moslem  World,”  are  hope¬ 
lessly  big  and  vague.  A  whole  great  mis¬ 
sion  country  should  never  be  treated,  un¬ 
less  by  a  missionary  or  some  expert  on 
that  country. 

On  the  other  hand,  the  subject  may  be 
too  restricted.  Some  topics  presuppose 
more  general  knowledge  of  mission  prob¬ 
lems  than  is  warranted.  While  “The 
Native  Church  in  Uganda”  would  be  of 
reasonable  scope,  “Self-government  of 
African  Churches”  would  be  too  tech- 


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MISSIONARY  MEETINGS 

nical  a  theme,  unless  there  were  an  un¬ 
usual  background  of  missionary  intelli¬ 
gence  in  the  college.  Some  topics  play 
to  the  narrow  viewpoint.  “Missionary 
Strategy  in  Latin  America”  would  pass 
muster  as  a  good  subject  in  any  col¬ 
lege,  while  “Our  Missions  in  South 
America”  would  smack  of  the  provincial, 
even  in  the  college  of  a  denomination 
having  large  missionary  interests  in  that 
continent. 

(2)  They  should  be  practical.  “The 
Missionary  Obligation,”  “Why  Foreign 
Missions?”  “Motives  in  Missions*”  do  not 
appeal  so  much  as  do  themes  that  relate 
to  actual  life. 

Present-day  conditions  have  a  more 
vital  interest  for  the  average  student  than 
historical  sketches  or  the  experiences  of 
missionaries  in  previous  generations. 
His  first  question  about  missionaries  is 
not,  How  did  they  get  in  ?  or,  What  were 
their  early  problems  and  conflicts?  but, 
What  are  they  doing  now?  At  the  same 
time,  the  romantic,  strategic  and  apolo¬ 
getic  phases  of  missions  in  earlier  days 
have  a  value  that  should  not  be  over¬ 
looked. 

The  more  practical  the  nature  and 
•  treatment  of  the  subject  is,  the  more 
likely  it  is  to  lead  to  practical  results. 
In  determining  the  nature  of  the  themes, 


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MISSIONARY  MEETINGS 

the  committee  should  not  lose  sight  of 
the  opportunity  of  this  meeting  to  en¬ 
large  faith,  to  broaden  horizon,  to 
awaken  sympathy,  to  encourage  and  di¬ 
rect  prayer,  to  develop  character  and  to 
lead  to  unselfish  service— especially  mis¬ 
sionary  service  at  the  home  base  or  at 
the  front. 

There  should  be  a  constant  effort  to 
make  missions  seem  perfectly  reasonable 
and  normal.  Emphasize  the  missionary 
as  a  man.  It  is  well  to  take  the  corona 
off  his  head,  to  let  him  live  a  natural  life 
and  die  a  natural  death.  He  need  not 
be  a  martyr  or  even  a  pioneer  to  be  inter¬ 
esting.  And  nothing  will  suffer  if  he  be 
represented  as  going  to  ordinary  flesh 
and  blood  people,  rather  than  to  horrible 
savages,  or  to  the  queer  inhabitants  of  a 
queer  country,  or  to  the  mysterious  folk 
of  a  fairy-land.  Present  the  non-Chris¬ 
tian  peoples  not  as  curiosities,  but  as  fel¬ 
low  citizens  of  a  small  world,  as  relatives 
and  brethren  of  ours,  with  big  human 
problems  and  modern  national  questions 
and  experiences  that  are  wonderfully  like 
our  own  at  many  points. 

(3)  They  should  relate  to  the  present 
experiences  of  students.  College  men 
and  women  are  to  be  treated  as  adults 
of  at  least  fair  intelligence.  They  are 
past  the  age  when  they  can  be  interested 


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only  by  a  missionary  in  costume  with 
his  paraphernalia  of  curios.  The  object 
lesson  has  its  valuable  place  with  all 
adults  and  is  by  no  means  to  be  excluded 
in  dealing  with  student  audiences.  But 
the  interest  of  the  average  student  does 
not  need  to  be  baited  by  an  idol  or  a 
model  of  a  thatched  hut.  Most  students 
are  less  appealed  to  (and  the  others 
would  like  you  to  think  that  they  are)  by 
the  romantic  and  spectacular  features 
tha  by  the  economic,  philosophic  and 
sociological  aspects  of  the  missionary 
enterprise. 

Sometimes  they  can  be  made  to  fit 
in  with  certain  prominent  curriculum 
studies,  such  as  history,  economics  and 
philosophy.  At  the  appropriate  time 
themes  such  as  “The  Passing  of  Feudal 
Japan,”  “The  Great  Crusade  of  the 
Twentieth  Century,”  “Missionary  Capi¬ 
tal  and  Labor,”  “Evolution  in  the  Mis¬ 
sionary  Enterprise”  would  excite  unusual 
interest. 

LTse  should  be  made  of  the  interest 
centering  in  the  Mission  Study  classes. 
The  class  studying  India  might  have 
charge  of  a  meeting  on  the  “Fruits  of 
Hinduism”  as  seen  in  the  family  life,  the 
position  of  woman,  the  depressed  classes, 
the  entire  social  system,  industrial  con¬ 
ditions,  public  hygiene,  religious  prac- 


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tices,  personal  character,  spiritual  life, 
etc.,  each  speaker  making  a  contrast  with 
the  fruits  of  the  Spirit.  Under  the  cap¬ 
tion,  “From  Wheelbarrow  to  Pullman,'’ 
the  class  studying  China  might  conduct  a 
meeting  on  recent  economic  develop¬ 
ments  in  China,  introducing  many  inter¬ 
esting  customs  and  beliefs  (e.g.,  Feng- 
shui),  and  indicating  the  opportunity  af¬ 
forded  Christianity  to  impress  this 
changing  civilization.  At  two  or  even 
three  meetings  of  the  year  the  new  inter¬ 
est  and  knowledge  of  the  members  of 
the  mission  study  classes  should  be  re¬ 
leased  in  this  way.  Fully  a  month 
should  be  given  them  for  preparation. 

(4)  They  should  be  appropriate  to 
the  class  of  students  appealed  to.  The 
mistake  is  sometimes  made  of  laying 
down  a  rigid  classification,  such  as  the 
women  and  children  of  mission  lands  for 
girls’  colleges,  medical  mission  work  for 
medical  institutions  and  heroes  for  high 
schools.  It  should  be  borne  in  mind  that 
the  interests  of  all  students  are  varied 
and  that  one  object  of  the  missionary 
meeting  is  to  make  them  wider  still.  At 
the  same  time,  the  various  stages  of  ad¬ 
vancement,  the  special  interests  of  dif¬ 
ferent  classes  of  students  and  the  most 
direct  lines  of  contact  with  them  should 
be  taken  into  account. 


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(5)  Sometimes  a  series  of  connected 
themes  is  effective.  “Missions  and  Com¬ 
merce,”  “Missions  and  Politics,”  “Mis¬ 
sions  and  Sociology,”  “Missions  and 
Education,”  “Missions  and  National  Re¬ 
generation”  has,  proved  a  successful  se¬ 
ries.  A  series  on  “Christianity  and  the 
non-Christian  Religions”  under  expert 
treatment  has  great  possibilities  of  inter¬ 
est  and  conviction,  as  well  as  of  educa¬ 
tion. 

4.  Preparation  of  Outlines  for  Meetings 

No  attempt  is  made  here  to  outline 
programmes  under  various  topics.  This 
will  be  governed  by  the  class  of  institu¬ 
tion,  the  special  interests  of  the  college, 
the  speakers  available,  the  reference  ma¬ 
terial  and  other  facilities  at  hand  and 
similar  local  conditions.  Resourceful 
committees  will  have  little  difficulty  in 
drawing  up  attractive  and  useful  pro¬ 
grammes.  On  this  point  most  valuable 
counsel  can  usually  be  had  from  some 
sympathetic  professor.  The  files  of  The 
Intercollegian  contain  a  great  variety  of 
programmes,  most  of  which  are  still  ap¬ 
propriate  or  suggestive.  Committees  are 
also  invited  to  correspond  with  the  office 
of  the  Student  Volunteer  Movement  for 
help  in  regard  to  their  missionary  pro¬ 
grammes. 


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5.  Some  Suggested  Topics 1 

A  number  of  suitable  themes  have 
already  been  suggested  in  this  pamphlet. 
Some  other  topics  are  here  given : 

The  Young  Turk  and  Real  Freedom. 

Student  Life  in  India  (or  some  other  great 
non-Christian  country). 

A  Modern  Miracle  Plant  (a  missionary 
hospital.  See  pamphlet  “A  Modern 
Miracle  Plant”). 

First  Century  Christianity  in  Twentieth 
Century  Korea. 

Laymen  in  Line. 

A  Decade’s  Political  Reforms  in  the  East. 

A  Yankee  on  the  Yangtse. 

The  Critic  of  Missions.  (Impersonation.) 

Students  and  the  Advancing  Kingdom. 

Japan  Leading  the  East— Whither? 

The  New  Woman  in  Turkey  (or  China,  or 
India.  Possibly  three  speakers  could 
present  “The  New  Woman  of  the  East”). 

How  Christ  Came  to  Japan  (Xavier  and 
Neesima). 

Advantages  of  a  Christian  Woman. 


1  For  material  consult:  The  Encyclopedia  of  Mis¬ 
sions,  the  Reports  of  the  Student  Volunteer  Move¬ 
ment  Conventions  and  other  missionary  gatherings 
(the  Report  of  the  World  Missionary  Conference 
will  be  found  a  perfect  mine  of  information,  recent 
and  authoritative),  current  issues  of  The  Missionary 
Review  of  the  World,  and  other  periodicals,  both 
religious  and  secular  (see  “The  Reader’s  Guide  to 
Periodical  Literature”),  Dennis’s  “Christian  Missions 
and  Social  Progress,”  Mott’s  “The  Decisive  Hour  of 
Christian  Missions,”  Speer’s  “Christianity  and  the 
Nations,”  “World  Atlas  of  Christian  Missions,”  and 
other  standard  books  and  pamphlets  on  missions. 


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MISSIONARY  MEETINGS 

Resolved:  That  Islam  is  waging  a  more 
creditable  missionary  propaganda  in 
Africa  than  is  Christianity.  (Debate.) 

From  Livingstone  to  Roosevelt:  Develop¬ 
ments  in  Africa. 

How  the  Call  Came  (compare  the  cases  of 
several  missionaries). 

Yale  in  Changsha. 

Princeton  in  Peking. 

Transmigration  of  the  Soul:  The  Doctrine 
and  its  Fruit. 

A  Great  War  of  the  Twentieth  Century 

(Islam  in  Africa). 

Non-missionary  Missionaries  (opportunities 
of  military  officers,  consular  officials 
and  business  men). 

Strategic  Positions  in  the  Teaching  World. 
The  Impact  of  the  West  on  the  East. 

The  Greatest  Enterprise  of  the  Present  Day 

(make  use  of  “The  Decisive  Hour  of 
Christian  Missions”). 

Two  Want  Ads.  (Impersonations.) 

Wanted:  A  place  to  locate;  not  already 
overcrowded  with  doctors;  by  a 
young  physician. 

Wanted:  A  physician  to  take  full  charge 
of  all  the  medical  work  in  the  city 

of  - — ,  to  establish  a  hospital 

and  later  a  medical  school. 

Christianity  as  Seen  in  China: 

In  the  port  cities  (evil  occupations  and 
practices  of  Occidentals). 

In  the  mission  stations  (testimony  of 
prominent  officials,  travelers,  etc.). 

Why  I  Intend  to  be  a  Foreign  Missionary. 

(Symposium  by  student  volunteers.) 


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MISSIONARY  MEETINGS 

Students  of  the  World  United, 

Christian  Education  in  China. 

The  World  Missionary  Conference. 

The  Migration  of  Oriental  Students  to 
America. 

Religious  Awakenings  in  Mission  Fields. 

New  Social  Ideals  in  India. 

The  Regeneration  of  Turkey. 

Our  Duty  to  Mexico. 

Problems  for  Christian  Sociology  in  China. 

Missions  and  Civilization. 

Missions  and  Unity. 

Missions  and  Universal  Peace. 

Foreign  Missions  After  a  Century  (several 
leading  North  American  Mission  Boards 
have  recently  celebrated  their  centena¬ 
ries). 

Twice-Born  Men  in  China. 

Colleges  for  Women  in  the  Orient. 

Wanted:  Intelligent  Citizens.  (Mission 
Study  Rally.) 

Statesmen  in  the  Witness  Box  (in  defense 
of  missions). 

Barriers— at  Home  and  Abroad. 

Home  Life  in  Persia. 

The  Strength  and  Weakness  of  Confucian¬ 
ism. 

College  Men  Challenged. 


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